Editor

The editor should be fairly familiar to anyone who has used a word processor before. This is where you’ll work on the current active chapter of your story. Selecting a chapter from the Story Outline in the side bar will open it in the editor.

Your work is autosaved as you write, though you should note that inksprite is not a cloud service. Stories are saved locally in your browser’s storage.

Storage

inksprite is not an online service. Your work is not backed up to the cloud, nor will it synchronize between devices.

Prompt Bar

If you have AI features enabled, you’ll see a prompt bar at the bottom of the screen. Typing a prompt here and hitting enter will send a request to the AI, instructing it to continue writing from the end of the chapter.

This is a good place to put a scene beat or authors note, but adding a custom prompt is optional. If left blank, the default prompt will look something like “continue the story from where it left off”.

See the AI Co-Writing section for more details.

Shortcut

You can trigger a “continue writing” request from anywhere in the editor by pressing Control+Enter (Windows/Linux) or Command+Enter (Mac).

Formatting

We have deliberately omitted a formatting toolbar to reduce visual clutter. The usual keyboard shortcuts will work, but we suggest using markdown. The editor will automatically translate markdown into formatted text as you type. Once you learn them, these shorthands feel very natural and won’t interrupt your flow.

Here are some examples. Below, you’ll see how this is translated into formatted text by the editor.

Note

Automatic formatting won’t trigger for text you paste into the editor.

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I *really* like chocolate.
Do **not** eat that mushroom.
You should ~~not~~ have another coffee.
> inksprite is the best writing app I've ever used

To-do list:
- Nap
- Eat lunch
- Nap

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I really like chocolate.

Do not eat that mushroom.

You should not have another coffee.

“inksprite is the best writing app I’ve ever used”

To-do list:

• Nap
• Eat lunch
• Nap

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Let’s count to three:

1. One
2. Two
3. Three